I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
The speaker has not departed from God's judgments because God Himself has taught him, and that divine teaching keeps him faithful and steadfast in loyalty to them. Remaining faithful follows from being taught by God, whose instruction in His word holds the learner from turning away. God's teaching is instruction in His Word that gives understanding and guides a life of obedience. Receiving the truths of the Word in the heart makes people doers of the Word and transforms their character.
The verse belongs to the psalm's praise of God's law as the rule of life and its call to study His Word, where the principles of right and wrong are clearly defined. The psalm upholds the sacredness of God's law and is read with solemn earnestness to declare that the wickedness of the world has reached the point where the Lord will certainly intervene to punish transgressors of His law.
Those who share this loyalty refrain their feet from every evil way to keep God's word, love His law and meditate in it all the day, and are made wiser than enemies, teachers, and ancients through His commandments and precepts. They find His words sweet as honey, gain understanding through them, and hate every false way. The verse is the song of a commandment-keeping people in the last days whose fidelity to and love for the law of God's kingdom grow more decided as contempt is placed upon that law. With happy voices they make it their declaration of faith concerning the patience of the saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, thus proclaiming the third angel's message with heart and voice.
The speaker has not departed from God's judgments because God Himself has taught him, and that divine teaching keeps him faithful and steadfast in loyalty to them. Remaining faithful follows from being taught by God, whose instruction in His word holds the learner from turning away. God's teaching is instruction in His Word that gives understanding and guides a life of obedience. Receiving the truths of the Word in the heart makes people doers of the Word and transforms their character.
The verse belongs to the psalm's praise of God's law as the rule of life and its call to study His Word, where the principles of right and wrong are clearly defined. The psalm upholds the sacredness of God's law and is read with solemn earnestness to declare that the wickedness of the world has reached the point where the Lord will certainly intervene to punish transgressors of His law.
Those who share this loyalty refrain their feet from every evil way to keep God's word, love His law and meditate in it all the day, and are made wiser than enemies, teachers, and ancients through His commandments and precepts. They find His words sweet as honey, gain understanding through them, and hate every false way. The verse is the song of a commandment-keeping people in the last days whose fidelity to and love for the law of God's kingdom grow more decided as contempt is placed upon that law. With happy voices they make it their declaration of faith concerning the patience of the saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, thus proclaiming the third angel's message with heart and voice.